Sweet Country

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Sweet Country is an acclaimed Australian period Western drama film that explores racial injustice and frontier violence in the Northern Territory during the 1920s.

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instanceOf Western film
film
awardReceived Best Direction at the AACTA Awards
Best Film at the AACTA Awards
Best Original Screenplay at the AACTA Awards
Platform Prize at the Toronto International Film Festival
linked to: TIFF Platform Prize

Special Jury Prize at the Venice International Film Festival
UNICEF Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards
linked to: UNICEF Award
basedOn stories by David Tranter
cinematographyBy Warwick Thornton
countryOfOrigin Australia
director Warwick Thornton
distributor Transmission Films
editedBy Nick Meyers
filmingLocation Northern Territory
South Australia
genre Western
drama
period drama
hasMainCharacter Fred Smith
Mick Kennedy
Philomac
Sam Kelly
musicBy Bryan Michael Mills
originalLanguage English
premieredAt 74th Venice International Film Festival
producer David Jowsey
Greer Simpkin
releaseYear 2017
runningTime 113 minutes
setInCountry Australia
setInPlace Northern Territory
setInTime 1920s
starring Bryan Brown
Ewen Leslie
Hamilton Morris
Matt Day
Natassia Gorey-Furber
Sam Neill
Thomas M. Wright
theme colonialism
frontier violence
racial injustice
racism in Australia
writer David Tranter
Steven McGregor

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Bryan Brown notableWork Sweet Country